This winamp easter egg will cause your skin to change transparency level with each beat. It's a cool little trick to show your friends.Winamp is famous for their easter eggs. This one is probably the most useful one I have seen. These keystrokes will cause the winamp skin to pulse in transparency with each beat. Here's how you do it. 1. Open winamp 2. Select any modern skin 3. Make sure you on the front of the skin (where the play, stop, etc buttons are) 4. Hold down CTRL+ALT+Shift and type in nullsoft 5. Play a music file and the changes should be obvious Easy, huh? Holding down CTRL+ALT+Shift while typing in NULLSOFT will give you this little fun trick.... Read More

 Since the iPod tends to have excessive space in most cases, why not use a tiny bit of that space to Rip more music?I've read about the many things that are supposedly possible with an iPod, and if Linux can be installed on it, why not any other software? **This probably voids your warranty, so do this at your own risk! If the computer has iTunes, you will need to switch to disk mode: Open iTunes edit\prefrences click on iPod tab and select the Check the box for disk use you will be warned about manual ejecting.. blah, blah.. click yes or OK, Under the same menu select the second raio button option Automatically update selected playlists only , and do not select any lists. If the computer does not have iTunes, then it will automatically be in disk mode. First you need a cd ripper. There are many rippers, i suggest any that are free, small and can connect to the CDDB (Compact Disc Database) to save you time, in putting in the track names and numbers, etc. The whole trick to this is insta... Read More

 If not careful when reducing the dimensions of a digital image, the resulting image may suffer from aliasing, a type of distortion seen in all types of digital media. A few tips can help prevent aliasing.Aliasing occurs when breaking a continuous signal into discrete pieces such as when a digital camera assembles an array of individual points or pixels from a scene. Once in a digital format, one must be cautious when altering the size. There are various techniques that graphic design applications may use to reduce image dimensions, although most involve an average of the original pictures. Imagine a simple image 100 pixels wide and high. If this image is reduced in size by half to 50x50 pixels, each resulting pixel represents 2x2 or 4 pixels of the original image. This reduction is optimal and will yield a true representation of the original image. If the original 100x100 pixel image is reduced 10% to a 90x90 pixel image, then each resulting pixel is not a simple average of neighboring... Read More

 Another of my Sony PSP guides taken from seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com lil brother site. This explains how to create custom eboot.pbp files for v1.50 sony psps. Sick of the kxploit icon and backgrounds? Lets get started!Note, taken from my site, why re-invent the wheel eh? and i'm lazy today too!.. http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/eboot.html Overview: This guide will explain how to create custom eboot.pbp files using your own graphics or the original emulator/homebrew graphics (replaces the KXPloit ones) This will ONLY work on Sony PSPs w/firmware verison 1.50, NOT 1.51 or 1.52!!! Required Programs: -KXPloit v1.50 -PBP Unpacker -Photo/paint editor for making custom graphics (ie photoshop) Step 1. Install the above two programs. Step 2. Download the homebrew/emulator you want to run on your PSP. Step 3. Depending on the author, the emulator might be KXploit ready (ie created w/two folders, a % folder and normal folder, ie SNES9X\ and SNES9X%\ ) If you only see one folder, then y... Read More

 Easter Egg that is proof that Nintendo Gamecube is for kiddies.For this recipe all you need is a TV a gamecube and one control. The first thing you do is before you even turn the Gamecube on hold down the Z button. Turn the system on and continue to hold the Z button while it loads. While the Gamecube symbol is shown it won't play the usual sound, but instead it will play some chimes, a baby's rattle, a little kids giggle, and a few random noises.... Read More

 If you want to win a game of Minesweeper easily, without any cheat codes (you can cheat without cheat codes too!) this recipe is for you! 1. Open Minesweeper 2. Click on Game 3. Then Click on Custom... 4. Then change the Height to 24 5. Then change the Width to 30 6. Change the number of mines to 10 7. Click on OK Now, when you click somewhere, all you are going to see is numbered squares of 1's or 2's. And the rest is empty. Then there are going to be unmarked squares in-between a square pattern of 8 "1 and 2" squares. This unmarked square is usually a mine. So just make sure that you don't click in the center of 8 squares. You can pretty much click anywhere else. After you play a few games you are going to realize that the mines appear in a pattern that is really easy to figure out. Once you figure out the pattern winning Minesweeper games are going to be super easy.... Read More

 how to minimize a full screen game with out exiting.When your in a game lets say Sims or Starcraft or whatever your passion is and you need to minimize it for what ever reason. Simply hit the Windows button (located between Control and Alt) on your keyboard. What this will do is bring up your start menu but at the same time will minimize your game. It will stay minimized with any repercussions other than on some games it will pause the game.... Read More

 If any of you are fimiliar with Miniclip's Anagrammatic, you will know that at the fifth stage there is a nine letter bonus word. Here's how to be sure you're the first to get it. And to get the extra 10 points you may need to win. 1. Goto http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html. 2. Where it says limit each limit each solution to put in 1 word. 3. Now that you have that preset up open a new window (Ctrl+N). 4. With this new window goto Anagrammatic. "http://www.miniclip.com/anagrammatic/anagrammatic.htm" 5. Play a game and do Round One - Four as you normally would. 6. When you get to Round Five switch back to the first site and enter the letters given to you. 7. Click the Go do it! button and wait for your results. 8. It will redirect you to a page with the answer(s) to your angram. 9. Quickly enter thoose on Anagrammatic and hit Submit. 10. Enjoy your cheating.... Read More

 Here's quickie guide i thought other PSP users might find useful. How to get your own custom thumbnails for movies on your PSP using Photoshop.Requirements: -Video/Movie file converted/encoded w/PSP Video 9 to PSP format -Image/Photo to be used as thumbnail -Photoshop 9 or above Maybe your like me and a custom-nerd, meaning you gotta have things your way. Well, i wanted my video files to have a nice movie/cover art thumb vs the default one that PSP Video 9 create. So i searched around and found a site that had some info and thought i'd share it here. Here's an example of my Hackers movie and a custom thumbnail I created for it. Step 1. Create your thumbnail using Photoshop. Try to create at Width: 160px x Height: 120px, Resolution: 72 pixel/inch, since this is the size we will the saving the jpg as. Step 2. Once your done with your image, in Photoshop, go to File > Save for Web Then in the Save For Web box, change the settings in red and then click Save. Step 3. Finally, we will need t... Read More

 How we've been getting all this money... it's finally become public.Well, our little trick has finally exploded into the public. We are rich now... so get in on this while you can. Heck, leave a few more hints here as well! This only works early in the morning when the servers first load up, and the the instance server is still loading. Heavy-loaded servers work the best. Although I have not tested them all, these areas are known to work -Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Scarlet Monastary, and Maraudon Do the Dupe: a. Player 1 hands player 2 a large amount of gold b. Player 1 goes into the instance. If the bug works, he/she will get kicked back out after a delay. c. Player 1 will have the original amount of gold he had before he traded and player 2 will still have the traded gold he received as well. d. Rince and Repeat Now, go dupe, dupe, dupe. Buy items and sell them to hide the money. Who knows what warcraft is going to do about this... Disclaimer: All of this is against warcraft's Terms... Read More

 This utility is a 3d map viewer for WOW. It allows access to the hidden areas.WoWmapview is a great utility. It is reverse engineered to display a 3d view based on the game data files. Since it reads the data files, users can use this to explore hidden off-limits areas. More useful, it allows you to see the maps to dungeons. Explore places while not in the actual game! Access the program at... http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net/... Read More

 Remodeling your Sims house? Get a little bit of your money back in the process.Before removing walls in your Sims' houses, be sure to remove the wallpaper. This will add a bit of money back in to your bank account. It's not much, but it is money... or, more correctly, Simoleans.... Read More

 Can't get the baby to stop crying? Here's one way to help.The best way I've found to quiet a crying Sims baby is to feed, feed, and then sing. That usually does the trick of getting the baby back to sleep so your adult Sim can get his or her much needed sleep.... Read More

 Are all those bills breaking your Sims? Use this trick to avoid paying all those bills.Wait to pay your bills until the next set is delivered. While the flag is up on the mail box, pay your old bills. The new bills will disappear. This way your Sims only pay every other set of bills.... Read More

 short of money? not any moreif you are that short of money try this cheat: type the following: ctrl + shift at the same time, then c (whilst holding down ctrl and shift) then there should be a panel at the top of your screen, click in it and type-rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;1 (exactly!!) hold the enter key down and watch your money go up!!!... Read More

 Help Your Sims with there Money and there mood.If your sims are sad or poor heres what to do!!! First if your sims are in a bad mood because they need stuff for work heres what you do: 1. Type Ctrl., Shift, then C. And a bar should pop up. 2. Type in the box Rosebud and then type 1!1! over and over until you reach the end of possible areas to type. 3. Then Hold down and press Space and Enter and it should give you 999,999,999 amount of Simoleons and it should never go down. Now if your sim is just in a bad mood because you just didnt take care of it just do this. 1. Go to buy mode. 2. Type in Crtl.,Shift, then delet. 3. Then delet your sim and it should pop bake up put them back in bed let them wake up and they should be fine.... Read More

 Many of the cool things you can do with your TiVo depend on what software version is running. This simple recipe lets you determine the version.The version information is included in the System Information screen. To get there: Press the TiVo button on your remote. Scroll down to Messages & Setup and press the select button. Scroll down to System Information and press the select button. Look for the line that starts with System information. You should see something like 3.0-01-1-010. The first two numbers (3.0 in this example) are usually all that you'll need to know.... Read More

 Lots of TiVo backdoor codes exist that allow you to do some cool things with your TiVo. Most of these are safe and will not void your warranty. Before you use any of these backdoor codes, you must enable backdoor mode. To enable backdoor mode, you need to know what software version is running. Use this recipe to determine what version you have. Refer to the table below to determine the backdoor code to use based on your software version. Version  Backdoor code 3.0      3 0 BC    (3<space>0<space>BC) 2.5      B D 2 5   (B<space>D<space>2<space>5) 2.5.2    B M U S 1 (B<space>M<space>U<space>S<space><one>) 2.0      2 0 TCD   (2<space><zero><space>TCD) Once you know the correct backdoor code, you must enter it in the Search by Title screen. To get there, Press the TiVo button on your remote, t... Read More

 When watching live tv or a recording, using the playback features like pause, instant replay, fast forward and rewind cause the play bar to be displayed on the screen. Once play resumes, this bar stays on screen for a few seconds sometimes obscuring important stuff on screen.A simple code causes the TiVo play bar to disappear quickly when resuming play. To enable this mode, press the following remote control buttons while you are watching a recorded show: Select Play Select Pause Select Entering the code again will turn off this feature.... Read More

 This is another of my quickie guides to alternatives to Tivo services using ones own PC and TV Tuner card. I will give an overview of three of the main commercial (non-open source) PVR software packages (taken from my website htpc page) and some notes about each.Home Theater PC (HTPC) systems have just recently started to emerge. A HTPC is basically a normal PC but has the ability to be used with a Big screen TV/LCD in a living room environment. So a few basic requirements of it are to have: TV/S-Video/HD outputs to connect to a TV, TV Tuner/AV inputs for other devices and TV, FM Tuner (optional), DVD Drive/Burner, remote control/wireless keyboard and a larger sized hard drive to save your recorded tv shows to. The first search or obstacle one might encounter is, ok, i have hardware but what can i use to drive it? What software package will take advantage of what i have? Here's a quick rundown of the 3 main commercial software packages out there worth mentioning (not including open-sou... Read More